Title :
Terahertz bit-rate optical processing by femtosecond two-pulse photon echo
Author :
Ollikainen, O. ; Gallus, J. ; Nilsson, C. ; Erni, Daniel ; Rebane, A.
Author_Institution :
Phys. Chem. Lab., Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We apply low-temperature polymer film doped with a near IR-absorbing naphthalocyanine-type dye molecules with 10 THz-broad inhomogeneous absorption band to demonstrate multiplication of two 8-bit binary vectors in less than 10 ps by two-pulse photon echo.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; high-speed optical techniques; optical information processing; optical materials; organic compounds; photon echo; 10 ps; binary vectors; femtosecond two-pulse photon echo; inhomogeneous absorption band; low-temperature polymer film; near IR-absorbing naphthalocyanine-type dye molecules; terahertz bit-rate optical processing; two-pulse photon echo; Laser excitation; Optical films; Optical interferometry; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Oscilloscopes; Photonics; Pulse measurements; Sampling methods; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-339-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1998.676151
